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Mary Ziegler is the Stearns Weaver Miller Professor at Florida State University College of Law. Her research and teaching focus on the history and law governing the family, reproduction, gender, sexuality, employment and torts. Her first book, After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate, was published by Harvard University Press in 2015 and won the 2014 Harvard University Press Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize for best first manuscript published by the press in any discipline. Her second book, Rights to Privacy: How Americans Reimagined Roe v. Wade and Why We Have Forgotten, is currently under contract with Harvard University Press. Her more than 20 law review articles have appeared in leading journals, and she has served as a commentator for or been quoted in leading mass media outlets, including The Atlantic, the New Republic, The New York Times, and TheWashington Post. She chairs committees for major legal history organizations, including the American Society for Legal History, the American Association of Law Schools Legal History Section and the American Bar Association's Committee on Historic Commemorations. She has also received recognition for her work in the classroom, including the 2016 Florida State University Teaching Award and the 2015 Transformation Through Teaching Award. She previously served as a law clerk for the Honorable John Dooley of the Vermont Supreme Court and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University Law School. Before joining the Florida State law faculty, she taught at St. Louis University School of Law.
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The retailer will be joining forces with the charity Magic Breakfast, founded by Carmel McConnell.
Over 8,500 pupils in UK primary schools already have access to a free breakfast provided by the charity. Magic Breakfast adds that over a third of British children miss the meal on a regular basis, which can lead to their education and health suffering. The charity also promotes the benefits of a healthy diet, which includes foods that are low in sugar, salt and saturated fat.
The community director of the retailer, Greg Sage, said that Tesco was committed to promoting a healthy diet for children, even pledging to remove sweets from its checkouts by January, 2015. In its stores, the Tesco's own cereal boxes will contain details on how to support the breakfast charity.
Many schools in the UK recognise that a nutritious diet and exercise are crucial for a child's development, which is why a large number of them are encouraging the consumption of healthy tuckshop food. Lincolnshire schools are among those taking part in the initiative.


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Wildflower Watch
August 3, 2021 by Brennen Serre
Walking through sage brush steppe on the hottest day of the year, I felt like I was surrounded by a monotonous sea of dirt and dry bushes. Upon closer examination and with some help of expert botanists, the diversity of plants with their story of survival and change began to bloom. To understand their story, we need to recognize how the flora around us has been changing in recent history. To gain some insight into the matter, I accompanied Trevor Bloom from The Nature Conservancy and Nathan Doerr, curator of the Draper Natural History Museum, on their hike through the sage brush steppe near the Shoshone River. They showed me how the Buffalo Bill Center of the West is hoping to gather pieces of the story to better understand what is going on in the ecosystems around us. To do so, the Center is recruiting people like you and me to participate in a fun and fascinating citizen science program studying the wildflowers around us.
Phenology (Fun-ology)
Phenology (fun-ology), or the seasonal timing of events, is the technical term for the data the citizen scientists will be collecting. Collecting phenological data is nothing new in Wyoming. In the 1970s, renowned biologist Frank Craighead began taking notes recording when certain plants around his home in Moose, Wyoming, began to bloom. Building upon his legacy, Wildflower Watch was started near Jackson, Wyoming, almost 50 years later to compare modern phenological observations to his historic data. Since recording began again five years ago, thousands of observations have been made by more than 700 volunteers in the Jackson area. These critical observations have helped piece together the real-time story of climate change here in western Wyoming. The goal is to collect similar data here in the Bighorn Basin so we can see how climate change is impacting the sagebrush steppe.
Noah Waldron courtesy TNC Wyoming
"Wyoming alone has between 23 and 37 million acres of sagebrush steppe. It is believed, however, that more than half the sagebrush steppe across North America could be lost as the result of climate change," said Doerr.
The data collected so far in Wyoming has shown that wildflowers and other plants are blooming weeks or even months earlier than they did just 50 years ago.
Becoming Better Stewards of the Land
One of the goals of the program is to be better stewards of the land around us and in order to do that, we must know what is here. Using a trail on a tract of land northwest of the Center, the plan is to utilize citizen scientists to observe wildflowers and other flora. Volunteers will hike an easy loop down to the Shoshone river. Multiple "zones" along the trail will have participants focus their observations on different species being sure to record the plant's stage of life and growth—also called its phenophase.
While walking the trail with Nathan and Trevor, I was surprised at how many species there were. Even in the hot June sun, we observed salsify and prickly pears blooming along the trail. Moving closer to the river, it was fascinating seeing how the types of plants changed being only a few feet closer to a steady water source.
With a fire burning on the horizon, it was interesting to learn how invasive cheatgrass has elongated our fire season due to its early spring blooming and flammable state the rest of the year.
It took just a short hike to see just how much diversity of plant life thrives in the Big Horn Basin. Sure, the surface may appear to be never-ending waves of sage brush, but as you dive deeper and look at what lies beneath the surface, the unique complexities of the steppe begin to appear.
Looking to the Future
The benefits of the collected data will last beyond any of our times here in Cody.
"The documented observations of citizen scientists exploring both native and invasive plants in the sagebrush steppe will help us to understand how climate change is affecting the timing of phenophases in this fragile ecosystem," said Doerr.
Every plant tells a story and the essential observations that will be made by citizen scientists will help us better understand this page in the world's natural history.
The materials and setup for Cody's version of Wildflower Watch are still in development, but we invite you to stay informed by following our social media page for updates, so you can participate in this amazing and crucial program when it rolls out. If you would like to get involved in other ways, check out our volunteer webpage here.
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About Brennen Serre
Brennen Serre is a PR and Marketing intern at the Center of the West. During the school year, Brennen studies Finance at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Having worked and volunteered for zoos and museums around the world, he is passionate for helping non-profit institutions achieve their missions. He enjoys hiking, listening to vinyl records, and cheering on his favorite college basketball team.

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Місто було названо на честь замку Вартбург у Тюрінгії, де Мартін Лютер переклав Біблію німецькою сім'ями іммігрантів, які прибули до Південної Африки в 1848 році. Помітна кількість німецькомовних жителів все ще проживає в околицях міста.

Місто в основному підтримується навколишньою сільськогосподарською промисловістю, переважно цукровою тростиною та виробництвом деревини.

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Feku Federalism Exposed. Check Out These 6 Questions
HomeOpinionFeku Federalism Exposed. Check Out These 6 Questions
This Article is From Feb 12, 2018
Derek O'Brien
OpinionUpdated: February 12, 2018 11:06 am IST
As a grandchild of Indian Railways - my maternal grandfather and several members of my mother's extended family worked for the Railways - I have a special affection for this institution, and for trains in general. My political career has seen me observe and work with the Railways in more than one capacity, and I used to be a keen student of the Railway Budget till the BJP-led government went and derailed it. Since then I have listened to the Finance Minister's Budget speech with extra care - both to try and make sense of the government's financial and economic plans, as well as to pick up the appallingly few lines that are now devoted to the gigantic infrastructure of the Indian Railways.
After this year's Budget speech, I put 12 specific questions in parliament to the Finance Minister, relating to the Railways. In the normal course, I would have put these questions to the Railway Minister, but last year, the BJP government subsumed the Railway Budget into the General Budget. So here are my questions. There's no politics here, no rhetoric. Just 12 hard questions.
One: The published operating ratio shows a figure of 94 per cent. Now consider the absolute numbers. When Suresh Prabhu presented his final Railway Budget, as the then Railway Minister, the revenue target was Rs 1 lakh, 90,000 crore. The next time the Finance Minister announced a revenue target of Rs 1 lakh, 72,000 crore. The actual figure that was finally released was Rs 1 lakh, 59,000 crore. We've done the math. These numbers don't add up to an operating ratio of 94 per cent. The real number is in excess of 100 per cent. Will the government please come clean?
Two: My second question relates to the Depreciation Reserve Fund. This fund is a critical component of Railway finances. It is used for ongoing maintenance. A General Manager dips into it without delay and long-winded references to Delhi to repair tracks and other crucial infrastructure to prevent accidents and mishaps and save lives. This fund has been reduced to a tenth of its value - from Rs 5,000 crore to Rs 500 crore. Why? Will the Sanraksha Account of Rs 20,000 crore replace it? What are the modalities of the new system, if any? Or is passenger safety not a priority?
Three: From 2000 to 2014, the CAGR - Compounded Annual Growth Rate - of Indian Railways was six per cent. In the past three years - the glorious "Achhe Din" of BJP raj - the CAGR is down to two per cent, as per my calculations. What's going on?
Four: The government claimed it removed a separate Railway Budget to prevent favouritism to particular states and to save Indian Railways from regional and political lobbying. Noble idea. But do consider that the allocation under the head of Railways in this Budget is 160 per cent higher (when compared to the previous year) for Uttarakhand, 30 per cent for Rajasthan, 20 per cent for Gujarat, and 20 per cent for Madhya Pradesh. These are all BJP-ruled states. For Delhi, it is minus 40 per cent; for Kerala, it is minus 25 per cent; for Bengal, it is minus 14 per cent. These are all non-BJP ruled states. Hello, Sir-ji?
Five: In the end, it all boils down to performance, right? You promised new lines of 800 km in a year. Actual delivery: 400 km. You promised gates conversion of 900 km. Actual delivery: 550 km. Doubling of tracks: you promised 1,800 km. Actual delivery: 900 km. The shortfall is 50 per cent. What does one call this? "Achhe half a din"?
Six: Is Indian Railways on the Union list, State list or Concurrent list of the Constitution? Like a good lawyer, the Finance Minister will laugh and ask me to consult my class VII civics book. I know the answer, Sir, but then tell me why the Railways is asking state governments to bear more and more of infrastructure cost? What happens to poorer states such as those of the Northeast - for example Tripura or Nagaland, where your party is currently promising the moon? What happens to debt-stressed states like Bengal? Is this Feku Federalism, with the states paying the Centre rather than the other way round? Next, as border states, will some states have to pay its share of the Defence Budget as well?
These were my first six questions. I will write on the remaining six tomorrow. I must emphasise that all 12 questions have already been asked in parliament. The government has said it will respond in a month - sometime in the middle of March. I guess it needs time to find the answers, just like it still needs time to count the notes that came in after demonetization.
Anyway, see you with six more questions tomorrow.
Derek O'Brien is leader, parliamentary party Trinamool Congress (RS), and Chief National spokesperson of the party.
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Hugh Jackman Is Blackbeard In 'Pan' Teaser Trailer
Hugh Jackman (X-Men, The Wolverine) brings a new spin and an entirely new look to the infamous pirate Blackbeard, who was killed off the coast of Ocracoke Island, in Warner Bros.' upcoming fantasy film Pan, which reimagines the classic Peter Pan tale.
The first official trailer, which you can watch below, arrived online last week, and it looks pretty epic.
Hugh Jackman is Blackbeard in 'Pan'
From Warner Bros. Pictures comes, "Pan," a live-action Peter Pan feature directed by Joe Wright ("Atonement," "Pride & Prejudice"). Offering a new take on the origin of the classic characters created by J.M. Barrie, the action adventure follows the story of an orphan who is spirited away to the magical Neverland. There, he finds both fun and dangers, and ultimately discovers his destiny—to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan.
The film stars Oscar nominee Hugh Jackman ("Les Misérables") as Blackbeard; Garrett Hedlund ("Inside Llewyn Davis") as Hook; Oscar nominee Rooney Mara ("The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo") as Tiger Lily; Adeel Akhtar ("The Dictator") as Smee; and newcomer Levi Miller as Peter.
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KMC risks losing Sh290 Million in budgetary allocation
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By LABAN WANAMBISI, NAIROBI, Kenya, May 15 – The Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) risks losing a Sh290 million budgetary allocation earmarked for the modernization programme after a parliamentary committee questioned its status.
Agriculture Committee Chairman Adan Haji directed the KMC Board and management to submit the audited financial statements for the last three year after it emerged that the government-owned meat processor had only spent Sh125 million out of Sh500 million that it been allocated in the 2017/18 budget.
"This contract was drawn up in 2017, if there was goodwill from the government to privatize KMC, and then it is now already two and half year and there is no such talk as for privatization. If it is there then it is with Treasury and those who have conceived the idea of privatization."
"So what we wanted to know from KMC, is before we even think of allocating anymore funds they have to tell us what is it that has stopped them from using the 85 million which we allocated them last year. We also want to know if this contractor has the capacity to do the job that he has been contracted to do," Haji posed.
The Committee is now questioned the intent of the government to implement the privatization of KMC after it was established that a Turkish company which had been contracted to install modern slaughtering and handling machines had not been began work after his contract and bank guarantee lapsed.
"No public participation has been sought on this issue, we as MPs and members of this Committee are not aware. The Pastoralists Parliamentary Group, are not aware, that this very important outfit, which is of strategic importance to the pastoralists community is being privatized, so what we are saying is the talk of privatization is a rumour."
"It is the position of this committee that government has no business doing business; they should facilitate a platform for strategic partner to come in and assist in the revitalization of not only KMC but also the sugar factories, tea and coffee sectors," he said.
Livestock Cabinet Administrative Secretary Andrew Tuimur however reaffirmed the government's goodwill to privatize the entity with a capacity of increasing its corned beef packaging up to 72 tonnes per slaughter of 2,000 cattle as well as reduce hides and skins wastage to 5 per cent from 40 per cent currently.
"When this modernization was being mooted, they actually provided a business plan; the idea what was the effect or what is going to happen to the KMC? Is it going to be better, or is it going to work like before?"
"The issue of the contract and bank guarantee lapse is being dealt with by the new board; they also have to be comfortable that before they pay any money the contractor meets all the obligation that were listed in the contract," the CAS told the committee.
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A History of the Federal Reserve; Chapter 4: New Procedures, New Problems, 1923-29
Posted: 3 Feb 1998
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Allan H. Meltzer
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business
Date Written: May 1997
The years 1923-1929 are often described as the best period in Federal Reserve history. Inflation though highly variable from quarter to quarter, averaged about zero for the period as a whole. Economic growth was variable but robust. The economy grew at a 3.3% average rate despite two recessions in six years. The Federal Reserve developed much more activist procedures than envisaged by the authors of the Federal Reserve Act or practiced in earlier years. The Reserve banks, particularly New York, gained more control of decisions, raising issues and disputes over substance, power and personalities. Policy actions intended to serve three principal aims: (1) reestablish the international gold standard, (2) maintain price stability, and (3) prevent or slow growth of speculative credit, particularly credit extended to carry securities traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The three aims were incompatible with economic conditions at home and abroad. The restoration of the gold standard (as a gold exchange standard) increased the demand for gold, forcing a decline in commodity prices. Britain returned to gold in 1925 at an overvalued exchange rate but was unwilling to deflate further. France returned in 1927-28 at an undervalued exchange rate, but was unwilling to inflate. The U.S. received large amounts of gold but was unwilling to inflate also. Both France and the United States sterilized gold inflows, forcing deflation on the rest of the world. French and U.S. policies were incompatible with the gold standard. Either their policies had to change, or the gold standard would break down. With hindsight, we know the answer: Britain, followed by many others, abandoned the gold standard after 1931. Canada left the standard in 1929. Three distinct groups coexisted within the Federal Reserve system. One, led by member of the Board but including several Reserve bank governors, accepted the real bills doctrine. They believed that speculative credit--including loans to brokers, dealers or customers to purchase shares on the New York Stock Exchange--was inflationary and must be prevented. Despite slowly falling prices, they worried most about inflation after 1927. A second group, led by Benjamin Strong of the New York bank, abandoned the real bills doctrine. In its place, they put the framework developed in pathbreaking books by Winfield Riefler and Randolph Burgess. Their framework emphasized the role of member bank borrowing as an indicator of the banks' position. Increased borrowing indicated increased tightness of the money market; reduced borrowing meant greater ease. Open market operations, by removing or augmenting reserves, were said to force banks to borrow or encourage repayment. This group regarded the high level of borrowing in 1929 as evidence that money was "tight". They wanted to raise the discount rate to force repayment and ease the money market. The third group included Governors of several Reserve banks. This group was concerned mainly with the earnings of the Reserve banks. Strong could gain their votes for his policy by increasing their banks' earnings. Despite the deflationary policies of the late 1920s, Federal Reserve officials wanted to tighten. They could not agree on the means. By the time they moved, world recession had started in Germany and Britain. The Federal Reserve entered the depression divided on personal and substantive issues. The rise in stock prices from 1927 to 1929 was driven by a comparable rise in corporate earnings. Market capitalization remained relatively high in these years; the capitalization rate fluctuated but did not generally rise. A large rise in capitalization rates occurred earlier, in 1926. As in 1966-68 and 1996-97, the rise seems to have been driven, at least in part, by a belief that the Federal Reserve had learned to control inflation and mitigate recessions.
JEL Classification: E42, E51, N12, N22
Meltzer, Allan H., A History of the Federal Reserve; Chapter 4: New Procedures, New Problems, 1923-29 (May 1997). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=54336
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PL Round-Up: Man City And Chelsea Make Light Of Opponents Before Squaring Up Next Week
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Manchester City and Chelsea won their games comfortably, setting an exciting theme for their encounter next week.
Manchester City continued their ruthless form of late, as they shipped 5 goals at the Etihad against a lacklustre Crystal Palace. Leroy Sane opened the scoring for the Citizens at half-time, and there was no looking back for Pep Guardiola's side after that. Raheem Sterling netted a brace, before Aguero and Delph added to the scoreline to make it 5-0.
Pep Guardiola seems to have found his magic formula, as he looks like a man on a mission to put the disappointment of last season behind. Manchester City have already scored 5 or more goals in 3 matches under Guardiola this season. It's safe to say that the Citizens' attacking setup is amongst the best, not just in the Premier League, but in the world as well.
Meanwhile, Chelsea made recovery from the disappointing draw against Arsenal, as Morata ran riot against Stoke. The Spanish striker, who was poor against the Gunners, scored his first hat-trick for his new club. Conte's side ran out deserved winners in a 4-0 win away against Stoke City. Pedro was also on the score-sheet to strengthen his claim for a place in the team.
These big wins for Chelsea and Manchester City have set up a mouth watering clash for football fans at the Stamford Bridge next week. City will be travelling to London, seeking to demolish their opposition as they did against Liverpool. The Blues, on the other hand, will be looking to get a result against Guardiola's flying men in their bid to close the gap at the top of the table.
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The meaning and symbol of the ship trapped in the thick fog in the dream
The meaning of dreams when a ship is trapped in thick fog, the dream of a ship trapped in thick fog has realistic effects and reactions, as well as the subjective imagination of the dreamer. Please see the detailed explanation below to help you organize the ship trapped in thick fog.
Dreaming that the boat is trapped by thick fog means that what you are doing may be blocked, or something that confuses you may happen. In short, everything is not going well.
The official dreamed that the ship was trapped by thick fog, indicating that someone will complain about yourself or your leader who is not satisfied with you in the near future. It is recommended that you be cautious in your words and deeds, and work hard to improve your interpersonal relationship with people around you.
The farmer dreamed that the boat was trapped by thick fog, which indicates an unknown sign to you that the field may be destroyed by heavy rain, which is not good for the crops.
A married person dreams that the boat is trapped by thick fog, which indicates that you will have a chance to go out for fun in the near future. It is recommended that you seize the opportunity. Proper relaxation is also an indispensable factor for maintaining a good and optimistic attitude.
Dreaming that the ship is trapped by the black mist indicates that you will encounter disaster in the near future, and that everything will not go well. It is an omen.
Dreaming that the thick fog that trapped the ship will gradually dissipate, indicates that your recent confusion is full of eyebrows, and good luck will soon be ushered in.
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Your time is precious. Spend it on something that matters.
We can't promise you that every moment will be a party. But what if the time you spent at work wasn't just going to pay the bills? Imagine clocking in to accomplish something more—something fulfilling, something exciting, and something you believed was worth doing. And sometimes, even having fun doing it!
Working with people you respect toward goals you care about.
Spiber wants to help you accomplish great things. We aren't just an employer—we are a team of individuals working with others we respect toward goals we care about. Doing so allows us to accomplish far greater things together than we ever could alone.
Accordingly, it's absolutely essential that our team members share our purpose and values. Just like a highly focused magnifying glass can channel a small amount of light into a white-hot point, a highly aligned team—even a small one—is capable of accomplishing great things.
Experiments aren't just for the lab.
Our dream is to have the largest positive impact on the world that we possibly can. All of our vision and drive is bound up in the pursuit of this one goal. Naturally, we're passionately excited about the potential that our unique technology has for realizing a sustainable future, but the possibilities don't end there—we think our team and culture are pretty special, too.
Of course, lots of companies say they're different, but we like to think we're doing something above and beyond the status quo. In fact, we're questioning the very foundation of the employee-company dynamic itself. One example of how we're doing that is our salary system.
We all have differences, ranging from the big to the small. These differences extend to every part of our lives, from how we live, work, and play, down to the way we contribute at the workplace and in our communities. This means that no one but you has the ability to understand and evaluate your unique situation and contributions. You're not just a dollar sign to us, but of course you do need to get paid. But how much, exactly? We leave that up to you. Yes, you read that correctly: each individual at Spiber decides what their own salary should be, and all salaries are freely visible to everyone else in our team.
This doesn't mean that everyone at Spiber is a millionaire. We have an obligation as members of a society with limited resources to take responsibility for the salaries we choose. Along with all the other team members in Spiber, you will creatively evaluate your salary using a variety of metrics—the company's current circumstances; the sort of value you create; the balance between yourself, other members of your team, and society; the market average; and much more. Each person makes their own final decision, which is why it's so important for our fundamental values and goals to be aligned.
We realize that this system represents a considerable departure from how most of us have earned a living until now. It requires a great deal of consideration and self-evaluation from each of us. The process isn't always an easy one, but we believe it provides exciting opportunities for personal responsibility and growth. It's an experiment that's still continuing to evolve, and we're excited to share it with you!
As you've probably noticed by now, we're big fans of individual awareness and responsibility. This approach also informs the way we structure our team. Rather than a traditional top-down approach with managers, department chiefs, section heads, and so on, we like to keep things a little...flatter. We're realistic, though: projects still need leaders, and teams still need administration. But highly motivated, independent thinkers remain the primary driving force behind our endeavor. You're free to join any team, partake in any project, and generally work in any style that suits you. See a meeting you think you could contribute to or learn from? Jump right in: meetings at Spiber are open to everyone.
Our corporate style requires constant communication within a close-knit community. That's why, in general, we ask all our team members to relocate to our company headquarters located in the beautiful Shonai region of Yamagata, Japan. Our office windows look out over mountain ranges, and a twenty minute drive in the other direction will have you at the beach with surf, sun, and hot springs. We're not fussed with formalities, either—our dress code is relaxed, and all employees are free to work in any part of the office that they like.
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Science and technology are the source of Spiber's innovation and competitive edge. We pursue high-risk, high-impact research on a grand scale—and with unprecedented speed—that is guided by a long-term vision. Our R&D teams function within an organic, inter-disciplinary structure that prizes brave, imaginative individuals who are not intimidated by big challenges. While experience and expertise remain important factors, they can sometimes become barriers to success. A simple or obvious question is often what leads to a breakthrough that drives significant progress.
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Going back to our bicycle shop example: At this point, we're ready to cancel our PPC account and never look back. But we dig a bit deeper, and notice that customers acquired from our PPC campaign spend another $800 each, per year, on higher-margin items that deliver an average profit of $200 per sale – we're getting loyal, long-term business. That changes the picture significantly:
SEO – Search Engine Optimization is the practice of achieving a high rank in the SERPs without the use of paid ads. In other words, marketers create content that they think will rank well for a specific search term. Typically, they'll also build a backlink profile to pass page rank from high authority sites to their own site in an effort to achieve a higher spot in the search results.
Interests are very similar to Topics. In fact, they are the same themes. However, the key difference is that Topics target websites and Interests target users. Google gleans user interest based on browsing history or self-selected interests if they're logged in to their Google account. This allows your ads to appear on whatever site someone with your targeted interests is on, even if that site isn't related.
Remember, depending on your targeting methods, the placement might not be that important. If you're targeting the user through interests or remarketing, the placement is just where that user visits. Of course, some sites will still perform better than others, but keep in mind which targeting method you're using when evaluating placement performances.
Now, how much weight does PageRank carry? Like most every other part of the algorithm, it's questionable. If we listed all the ranking factors, I don't suspect it would be in the top 5, but it's important to remember that the key to ranking well is to be the LESS IMPERFECT than your competition. IE: To have more of the right things that send the right signals in the right places so that Google sees you as a better, more relevant, candidate for the top three on page one. If you and your competitor both have optimized (on-page and technically) for the same keyword phrase perfectly, PR could be the deal breaker that pushes your blue link an inch up.
Google's founders, in their original paper,[17] reported that the PageRank algorithm for a network consisting of 322 million links (in-edges and out-edges) converges to within a tolerable limit in 52 iterations. The convergence in a network of half the above size took approximately 45 iterations. Through this data, they concluded the algorithm can be scaled very well and that the scaling factor for extremely large networks would be roughly linear in {\displaystyle \log n} , where n is the size of the network.
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What is search engine optimization, then? It's not secrets or tricks — just ranking methodologies to follow in order to help a site that offers value to users beat the competition in search results. Today, you must be committed not just to optimizing your domain, but also to making it a quality site that attracts links naturally and is worthy of ranking.
These techniques are used to support the objectives of acquiring new customers and providing services to existing customers that help develop the customer relationship through E-CRM and marketing automation. However, for digital marketing to be successful, there is still a necessity for integration of these techniques with traditional media such as print, TV and direct mail as part of multichannel marketing communications.
Search Results: Ordered by relevance to your query, with the result that Google considers the most relevant listed first. Consequently you are likely to find what you're seeking quickly by looking at the results in the order in which they appear. Google assesses relevance by considering over a hundred factors, including how many other pages link to the page, the positions of the search terms within the page, and the proximity of the search terms to one another.
Positioning of a webpage on Google SERPs for a keyword depends on relevance and reputation, also known as authority and popularity. PageRank is Google's indication of its assessment of the reputation of a webpage: It is non-keyword specific. Google uses a combination of webpage and website authority to determine the overall authority of a webpage competing for a keyword.[34] The PageRank of the HomePage of a website is the best indication Google offers for website authority.[35]
B2B Awareness: If you offer a service in which the sales cycle is measured in weeks and months instead of minutes, PPC can help with visibility and acquiring high-quality users. You can control the ad copy a new user sees and the content a new user is exposed to for a good first impression. You're optimizing to pay for as many of the best clicks, and the best leads, at the lowest possible cost.
Digital marketing is the use of the internet, mobile devices, social media, search engines, display advertising and other channels to reach consumers. As a subset of traditional marketing, digital marketing goes beyond the internet to include Short Message Service (SMS), Simple Notification Service (SNS), search engine optimization (SEO), electronic or interactive billboards and other online ads (such as banner ads) to promote products and services. Some marketing experts consider digital marketing to be an entirely new endeavor that requires a new way of approaching customers and new ways of understanding how customers behave compared to traditional marketing.
Links still matter as part of the algorithmic secret sauce. The influence of a site's link profile is plain to see in its search engine rankings, whether for better or worse, and changes in that link profile cause noticeable movement up or down the SERP. An SEO's emphasis today should be on attracting links to quality content naturally, not building them en masse. (For more on proper link building today, see http://bit.ly/1XIm3vf )
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Display Network – This network consists of millions of sites that agree to show Google text, image, and video ads. These ads are shown within the site's content and don't utilize traditional keyword based targeting, but rather audiences and demographics. For example, a user may visit a blog that speaks to the history of coffee tables. Even though the user isn't necessarily in a buying mode, the content is relevant to coffee tables. The user may or may not click the ad, but is ultimately now aware of the brand.
Google thinks that if your site has been linked to several times, it's because you're doing something good. For them, it's a sign that people like what you do, your content is useful, high-quality, relevant, and therefore you must have a certain authority or be a quality reference in the area that you specialize in, and that's why people are citing your site or content.
PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page's importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page's PageRank is calculated.
85. Use of Google Analytics and Google Search Console: Some think that having these two programs installed on your site can improve your page's indexing. They may also directly influence rankings by giving Google more data to work with (ie. more accurate bounce rate, whether or not you get referral traffic from your backlinks etc.). That said, Google has denied this as a myth.
Tablet - We consider tablets as devices in their own class, so when we speak of mobile devices, we generally do not include tablets in the definition. Tablets tend to have larger screens, which means that, unless you offer tablet-optimized content, you can assume that users expect to see your site as it would look on a desktop browser rather than on a smartphone browser.
As mobile devices become an increasingly integral part of our lives, it's vital that marketers understand how to effectively communicate on this unique and extremely personal channel. Mobile devices are kept in our pockets, sit next to our beds, and are checked constantly throughout the day. This makes marketing on mobile incredibly important but also very nuanced.
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Suppose instead that page B had a link to pages C and A, page C had a link to page A, and page D had links to all three pages. Thus, upon the first iteration, page B would transfer half of its existing value, or 0.125, to page A and the other half, or 0.125, to page C. Page C would transfer all of its existing value, 0.25, to the only page it links to, A. Since D had three outbound links, it would transfer one third of its existing value, or approximately 0.083, to A. At the completion of this iteration, page A will have a PageRank of approximately 0.458.
In February 1998 Jeffrey Brewer of Goto.com, a 25-employee startup company (later Overture, now part of Yahoo!), presented a pay per click search engine proof-of-concept to the TED conference in California.[11] This presentation and the events that followed created the PPC advertising system. Credit for the concept of the PPC model is generally given to Idealab and Goto.com founder Bill Gross.[12]
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Generally speaking, "ad position" is influenced by the amount you are willing to pay (max CPC bid) and the relevancy of the ad to the keywords in your ad group (Quality Score). Quality Score is a numeric representation of the relevancy of your ads and keywords assigned independently by both Google and Bing. It is important to note that only Google's Quality Score impacts ad position currently. Bing's Quality Score serves only as a guideline to improve your ad/keyword relevancy. We will discuss Quality Score in further detail in Part B.
For search engine optimization purposes, some companies offer to sell high PageRank links to webmasters.[38] As links from higher-PR pages are believed to be more valuable, they tend to be more expensive. It can be an effective and viable marketing strategy to buy link advertisements on content pages of quality and relevant sites to drive traffic and increase a webmaster's link popularity. However, Google has publicly warned webmasters that if they are or were discovered to be selling links for the purpose of conferring PageRank and reputation, their links will be devalued (ignored in the calculation of other pages' PageRanks). The practice of buying and selling links is intensely debated across the Webmaster community. Google advises webmasters to use the nofollow HTML attribute value on sponsored links. According to Matt Cutts, Google is concerned about webmasters who try to game the system, and thereby reduce the quality and relevance of Google search results.[38]
For any webmaster, it is important to know the rank of its web pages using a quality PR checker in order to maintain the health of its websites. One of the simplest ways to achieve that is to make use of some PR Checker tool. PR Checker is a tool that you can use to determine the significance of any webpage. It is one of the key factors that are used to determine which web pages appear in the search results and how do they rank. Keep in mind that the results of PR Checker can have significant influence on your overall Google ranking. This PR checker tool will help you to check page rank of any web page.
Content type: Many search features are tied to the topic of your page. For example, if the page has a recipe or a news article, or contains information about an event or a book. Google Search results can then apply content-specific features such as making your page eligible to appear in a top news stories carousel, a recipe carousel, or an events list.
Lost IS (budget), aka "budget too low" – Do your campaigns have set daily/monthly budget caps? If so, are your campaigns hitting their caps frequently? Budget caps help pace PPC spend but can also suppress yours Ads from being shown if set too low. Google calls it "throttling" where Adwords won't serve up ads every time they are eligible to be shown in an effort to allow your account to evenly pace through the daily budget.
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Totally agree — more does not always equal better. Google takes a sort of 'Birds of a Feather' approach when analyzing inbound links, so it's really all about associating yourself (via inbound links) with websites Google deems high quality and trustworthy so that Google deems YOUR web page high quality and trustworthy. As you mentioned, trying to cut corners, buy links, do one-for-one trades, or otherwise game/manipulate the system never works. The algorithm is too smart.
In 2007, Google announced a campaign against paid links that transfer PageRank.[29] On June 15, 2009, Google disclosed that they had taken measures to mitigate the effects of PageRank sculpting by use of the nofollow attribute on links. Matt Cutts, a well-known software engineer at Google, announced that Google Bot would no longer treat nofollowed links in the same way, to prevent SEO service providers from using nofollow for PageRank sculpting.[30] As a result of this change the usage of nofollow led to evaporation of PageRank. In order to avoid the above, SEO engineers developed alternative techniques that replace nofollowed tags with obfuscated Javascript and thus permit PageRank sculpting. Additionally several solutions have been suggested that include the usage of iframes, Flash and Javascript.[31]